Try 2048 or successively smaller numbers. 2GB should be the 32 bit limit (2047, 2048MB) Pete
Nicole wrote: > Hi! > > We have an SGI onyx2 with 6 Gb of memory and I have been > running dx with the command dx -memory 1028 > with no problem until my datasets got bigger ... > DX told me that I ran out of memory. > > Naively I decided to type dx -memory 2056 > dx starts ok but as I load my network I get the > message: > > connection to server tick failed > staring dx executive > error during initialization > cannot attach shared memory segment / failed on segment 7 > 0f -7 needed segments/ last call to shmat > returned errno=12 > cannot initialize DX library > > Thanks in advance for any suggestion you may have > > Nicole > > -- > Nicole Bordes, PhD > Scientific Visualization - San Diego Supercomputer Center
